Body and Health News

A disease transmitted in racooon feces shows up in New York, injuring a teen and damaging an infant’s brain.
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The French live up to their image as lovers of food and leisure, spending more time at the table and in bed than many other nations.
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The Spanish Health Ministry says the country now has 20 confirmed cases of swine flu, making Spain the hardest-hit nation in Europe amid the swine flu outbreak.
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The tally of confirmed swine flu cases in the United States jumped Sunday to 241 in 34 states, but officials said that’s largely from catching up on a backlog of lab tests rather than a sudden spurt in new infections.
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Egyptian police and armored cars charged into a crowd of a 1,000 irate pig farmers armed with stones and bottles, leaving 12 people injured as residents of a Cairo slum resisted government efforts to slaughter the nation’s pigs to guard against swine flu.
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The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America — and in Canada, back to pigs — even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
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President Barack Obama is working with Mexico’s president on ways to keep the swine flu from spreading further and says the U.S. will be ready if the flu strain develops into something worse.
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A fifth patient has tested positive for HIV, and seven more tested positive for hepatitis after being exposed to contaminated medical equipment at three Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals, the agency said Friday.
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In this age of global trade and travel, the swine flu outbreak has proven itself a global illness
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Health officials say about one-third of the confirmed U.S. cases of swine flu are people who had been to Mexico.
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